It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.